This is a cross-post by Tendance Coatesy
Bangladesh 1971: One of the Worst Genocides of the 20th Century
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday issued arrest warrants against already detained four Jamaat-e-Islami leaders on charges of committing genocide and crimes against humanity and peace during the Liberation War.
“Warrants of arrest should be issued against these four people to ensure effective and proper investigation,” Tribunal Chairman Justice Nizamul Huq said allowing the prosecution prayer after submission of Chief Prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu.
The four Jamaat leaders are Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla.
Jamaat Leaders Arrested for War Crimes
The War Crimes Tribunal has issued arrest warrants for the 4 senior Jamaat leaders already in government custody. The charges: committing genocide and crimes against humanity and peace during the 1971 War of Liberation. The leaders wanted in connection with the crimes: none other than Motiur Rahman Nizami, the Jamaat-e-Islam chief and his Secretary General, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and two lower ranking assistant secretaries general. Nizami and Mujahid are widely known to have been leaders in the Al Badr brigade, the militia that has been thought squarely responsible of murder and slaughter of a large number of young and promising intellectuals.
This is a very important move. These are the first charges brought against persons and citizens of Bangladesh for crimes committed under the International Crimes Tribunal Act of 1973. This act brought about a legal procedure to prosecute war criminal but was never used to in court. Decades of maneuvering and indemnity saw to that.
The sitting Awami League government returned to power in 2008 in no small measure from its promise to use just that law to prosecute those held responsible for collaborating with the (West) Pakistani military to commit murder and rape, destroy lives, unleash crashing waves of public and private torment.
More Here.
On the Genocide see here.
In the UK,
The full influence of Jamaati organisations such as the Islamic Foundation UK, East London Mosque, Muslim Aid UK, Dawatul Islam and the UK Islamic Mission is yet to be fully studied but these groups are known to be aggressively pushing Jamaat’s anti-secularism and anti-western literature and ideals – some of the backgrounds of arrested for terrorism ties in the UK such as Mozzam Begg and some of the 7/7 bombers show flirtations with Jamaat politics .
(From Here)
Noteworthy are the political links of these bodies, which are wide-ranging. They include local politicians in East London, and the Respect Party.
We await with interest Islamophobia Watch’s response to these arrests.
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We await with interest Islamophobia Watch’s response to these arrests.
You can be sure that the nittwitts there will have plenty to say.
An abhorrent act, all perpetrators should and must be bought to account, sickening. I hope these charges will extend to all those involved in such brutal crimes against humanity. That includes Tony Blair and George Bush
Why are we only blaming Jamaat people here, what about the role of the army and bureaucrats?
Yes and Omar al Bashir.
Arrest every Jamaat and BNP leader for war-crimes
until the parliament is left only with Awamis;
declare a caste system where all BNP supporters are 4th class citizen;
rename the PM as Queen Hasina of BongoBhavan, (The Rani of Bongobhavan),
revert the Bangladesh society back to 15th Century Hindustan,
and the entire problem of poverty & corruption will be gone.
Yeah right. And I suppose the “problem of poverty & corruption” is OK if it’s by the BNP-Jamaat-Military nexus!
A bizarre paradigm is unravelling itself here; a closer inspection of writing styles
suggests that Effendi, Tashkonak and Abu Faris are the same person. Its time to
expose this shadowy provocateur, he’s certainly a political agitator and his real
identity is ****** ******! Will you please step forward to receive your prize!
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php?title=Quilliam_Foundation
The answer lies in the above link, paragraph 3, line 1. Should I proceed any further your honour!
tashkonak –
No, the “problem of poverty & corruption” is only OK if it is done by The Rani of Bongobhavan, her supporters, and her logi-boittha Student Arms League.
In fact, when THEY do it, it’s not even a crime !!
Otherwise why would anyone support such an incompetent Rani ?
My real identity is “Centre for Social Cohesion”?!?!?!
my real name is Lunar Landing Module Earth Child Star Burst IV Jnr.
Which inadvertantly means ‘The Quilliam Foundation’ right, the characteristics of a liar, deflect the blame.
Do you play the same games with the Press and senior officials.
Real war crimes were committed in Bangladesh in 1971. Sadly thanks to the evil corrupted party politics of Bangladesh eg. Awami League, BNP, Jamaat, any trial not being run by international legal experts will lack credibility with those sections of the population from nationalist/right wing and Islamic opinions.
KGazi is also correct to point out that the Awami League has traditionally been too obsessed with it’s role in 1971 and has misruled Bangladesh for decades (as has BNP).
These trials are not a real solution to Bangladesh’s dire economic and social problems.
The Awami League should hold parallel trials of corrupt gangster politicians since 1971 from both it’s own and BNP ranks for credibility!
I think Sundarban may have forgotten to take his medicine this morning.
Nurse!!! The Screens!!!
Oh dear, I’ve just realised that Sundarban thinks that a text box inset in the Powerbase page on the Spittoon is a paragraph.
Clearly, Sundarban has not read the article properly; because if he had he would have noticed that its author attempts to argue that The Spittoon (as an allegedly wholly owned subsidary of CSC) is not talking to the Quilliam Foundation.
And – naturally – I play all sorts of games with the press and senior officials: Bridge with the cognoscenti; but I am quite as happy with a pint, a roll-up and a round or two of Cribbage daaaaaaan da pub with the hacks – if you know what I mean.
You are very funny, Sundarban – let’s play more.
Why Lunar….Module…..Junior when we can just abbreviate it to ED
ED, “The world must listen to me, stem the flow of Wahabism, trust me it will eradicate all the world’s problems”
Nurse screams: “Time for the tranquiliser gun, strap him down guys”
Steming the flow of Wahabism will certainly help.
Siddiq Khan the 7/7 bomber, made it very clear, in his case the trigger was not Wahabism but foreign policy
Literal interpretation is only a fraction of the overall problem
There was no attack on British soil pre-Iraq, I’ll leave it here
“These trials are not a real solution to Bangladesh’s dire economic and social problems.”
No they are not and nor should they be conflated with any such “solution”.
The trials are simply a means of justice to be applied on the war criminals of Bangladesh in 1971, for their many thousands of victims. The trials also have huge symbolic value to a country whose politics has been blighted by a culture of impunity.
Ed???? Sorry, wrong again, Sundarban. Keep guessing.
Wow – who would have thunk it: al-Qaida and its franchises are actually the result of a foreign policy that emerged *after* they started murdering innocent civilians.
Don’t you think you would be better off impressing the lads on MPACuk’s forum, Sundarban?
“There was no attack on British soil pre-Iraq, I’ll leave it here”
Yes, I think it’s best that you do. It will save you the trouble of retro-fitting your “7/7 was about the Iraq war” nonsense with information that Mohammed Siddique Khan was under surveillance 9 months before 9/11 and several years before the Iraq war.
O Yes he was of course under surveillance 9 months before 9/11, great surveillance
team, national ASS-et just like yourself. Get a day job, bozo
Still doesn’t change the fact that there was no homeland attack prior to Iraq, before
the Iraq War he was dreaming , thereafter he was scheming.
So whats your story Abu Farce/Queen Faisal, Neo-con Muslims are we, BRAVO!
Have you converted grandad yet?
“O Yes he was of course under surveillance 9 months before 9/11, great surveillance”
Oh I get it. The expression of hatred for British “foreign policy” isn’t entirely valid until you strap a bomb to your body and detonate it, killing yourself and dozens of innocents in the London Underground.
And if you’re under surveillance 5 years before the war, you’re still protesting the war before the fact!
“The trials also have huge symbolic value to a country whose politics has been blighted by a culture of impunity.”
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These trials will have no effect on the culture of impunity, in fact they will make the culture worse, because AL regime only prosecutes those groups who are her opposition. Thousands of AL conmen who were imprisoned for crime & corruption during CTG and before, have been released from prison by AL recently, while thousands of Opposition BNP & alliance groups still languish in jail.
Country suffers more from a culture of living-in-the-past history. Entire politics of awami governance is based only on 1971 and 1975 history. The Jamaat people are her opposition, and as Hasina takes a personal ownership of “war crimes trials”, she takes a jab at history to square-off the legends of Itihaash, alongwith a stroke of annihilation against the Alliance party. Knowing Hasina’s temperament, the next target of “trials” will be Khaleda Zia, and that will wipe off the BNP opposition threat also.
Such politics of selective impunity, targeting only the opposition, will make the politics of history even stronger. The nation will be divided even further – and the intensity of partisan hatred will lead the nation into continued chaos and poverty.
Instead of politics of development, the AL regime celebrates & masterminds the politics of historic division – AL-BNP, Mujib-Zia, army-jamat, student-teacher, police-rab, India-china, burma-rohinga, and a mixture of all of these. Instead of using these resources to grow the nation, the AL regime thrives on DIVIDING them for their own clinging on to power.
And all-along – anti-corruption, incompetence and progress are never sincerely discussed by AL regime (as much sincerity as they put on “trials” ), and so the nation spirals into decay – with an engorged POLITICS OF HISTORY and totally bad-governance.
At least previous (and mostly secular) terrorist outfits had the good sense to blame historical events for their lethal rage against society. Baader-Meinhoff had their theory of the improper denazification of the German elite; the IRA had the previous 800 years of British occupation; ETA the historical suppression of Basques by Madrid; even the PLO and spin-offs claimed they were in the business of righting past wrongs.
Uniquely, the religious lunatics with guns and bombs seemingly had the power to blame events that had yet to happen when they took innocent lives, destroyed the lives of countless more and spread their gospels of hate and intolerance. Or, at least, those who seek to excuse jihadi atrocities make such absurd claims of prescience on behalf of their vile heroes.
Of course, what Sundarban is trying to articulate is that the British state and people should be bullied into acquiescence with the rise of violent Islamist terror elsewhere… that is unless we want these bastards to visit their psychotic rage on our shores.
I have a very impolite response to that. It is two short words. The first one starts with “f”, the second with “o”.
Actually Sunderban I would be so smug if I were you. There was a terrorist plot on British Soil that was foiled not just before the Iraq war but even before 9/11. Furthermore, MSK was not only under surveliance but he was attending terrorist training camps in Afghanistan prior to the Iraq war.
Yes, I should have said MSK was under surveillance *because* he had attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
“Knowing Hasina’s temperament, the next target of “trials” will be Khaleda Zia, and that will wipe off the BNP opposition threat also.”
Why would that be a bad thing if it meant making Khaleda Zia accountable for ‘Operation Clean Heart‘? This was when the BNP leader sanctioned the military for extra-judicial killings of hundreds of civilian citizens? Again, with complete impunity.
What are the chances that partisan supporters of the BNP/Jamaat will oppose justice when it comes to bringing politicians to book if they are BNP or Jamaat politicians on the grounds that to do so would be “dirty party politics”?
Very high, I think you’ll find.
Abu Farce,
My riposte to your pleasant f o, does that last letter translate to ours by any chance,
because both you and Queen Faisal appear well suited to the task. Or is it just that
over time you’ve developed an inbuilt homing device for neo-con rectum, please
don’t let me disturb the man love unravelling between you and your Man Queen Faisal.
Sundarban, if you can’t handle civil debate, I suggest you follow Abu Faris’ advice and eff off.
Civil debate, great idea, we could have handed some of that to the Iraqis before
bombing them. Why don’t you teach some of that civil reason to Abu
Ferret who’s probably busy with his ferret, in their remake for ‘The Richard
Gere and hamster show’.
Where bombs fail we introduce logic, had logic been applied earlier there was no
need for the bombs.
This article has nothing at all to do with Iraq. So stay on topic or go elsewhere.
Sundarban – Why is it when you and your pals come to discuss here you end up resorting to childish antics?
It’s not our fault your sexually frustrated! Instead of writing smutty comments here you should go & find a woman or a man (bearded or whatever) and relieve yourself : – )
Either that or as Abu Faris & Faisal rightly say: Foxtrot Oscar!
Hi I.S, whats that stand for ‘Internally Screwed’
this gets better by the second, I should have gathered its a website
hosted by the 3 stooges, please don’t let me distrupt your ‘menage et trois’, you can
bang a way all you like, but your wholesame evaluation of foreign policy is
A.F absolutely flawed otherwise known as Abu Ferret
You write so intelligently as “Eesa Ahmed Jan” but become an unhinged lunatic when you post under the sockpuppet “Sundarban”. Do you have a personality disorder?
Actually 2 separate people one polling station
Spittoon, a monitored site, for who by whom?
Erm, collating contemporary Muslim sentiments for your neo-con funders.
You’re like a human totem pole, one with his head up the others rear with a lineage
stretching all the way back to the seriously deluded ‘Irving Khristol’
http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/cartoon_1876.html
A dubious site run by a dubious lot!
paranoid delusional?
Certainly – I would suggest with a dash of sociopathic narcissist…
No, it’s not one of the infamous Motoons – but it is slightly more on topic than our deranged sexually repressed friend’s recent comments…
http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/muhammad-cartoon19.gif
We get the most entertaining commenters on the Spittoon, I tell ya.
I love this:
How about
Dear Neo-cons,
Give us the keys to Spittoon, or we’ll join the lefties
Signed
All species
All species of rat, no doubt.
What genius Faisal, yes I am sitting here next to ‘Sundarban’ we are laughing out loud, reading your postings, are you enjoying your time on Abu’s lap.
For the sake of democracy don’t let me hamper your efforts.
Spittoon, a site for social justice, equality and the American way
There goes your cover!
A spittoon is usually a bowl for tobacco spitters, this site has provided you 3
shitters with a bowl. Over and out, another website exposed and taken out. Next
group of sell-outs watch out, the Bengal Tiger of Sundarban is out.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9b281_royal-bengal-tiger-of-sundarbans_travel
He’s sitting beside himself?
Woooow! This boy’s got BIG mentalist issues.
Sundarban has left his mannerisms at home. I think what he meant was, spittoon should be called shittoon, its become a bullshitting mouthpiece for some people’s warped ideas.
Yes Faisal you keep guessing, Inspector Colombo!
Sundarban
Take your head out of Jan’s rear and go pray 2 rakat at ELM for forgiveness!
Ramadan is coming up. It should help you to supress your Islamic sexually deviant urges.
It worked for Inayat Bunglawala and Taji Mustafa : – )
Only a total bi-sharam could use such terminology and 2 rakat in one sentence. I can see you missed out on a decent upbringing Bari, mummy and daddy away most of the time, don’t blame them, poor sod!
I think Sundarban made a laughing stock out of your colleagues and now that hes departed brave Bari enters the scene! I know all those years without mummy and daddy must have ruined your confidence, it all resulted in a cheap shot merchant.
Are you another member of this neo-con clown outfit, in that case you can read all the namaz you want, no hidayah for you.
I agree. I, Abdul Bari, have no shame. I only joined the MCB to pull the vulnerable young Girls. I think I can do better on my own now, thats why I don’t want the MCB top job anymore.
Farooq Murad can do that instead. I just want some Hijabi Babes : – )
Pass them IFE chicks onto me when you’ve finished with them guys! Or even if their HT!
I will give them some good halaqa’s : – )